Dandelion Books, LLC is a nine-year-old independent publishing company located in Tempe, Arizona. Its president and CEO, Carol Adler, MFA, is a published writer, poet, editor and entrepreneur.

Services include production for the full range of hard copy and electronic books, including Mobipocket, Kindle, Lighting Source/Ingram’s Glassbook and standard pdf products.

Background

Dandelion was one of the pioneers of digital technologies and on demand production and delivery. Although it has always offered full distribution services, the company positioned itself at the outset to become a leader in on demand online publishing and retailing. Until 2003 it functioned as a traditional publisher, offering royalties to its authors in exchange for licensing agreements. Since 2003, based on major industry shifts toward self-publishing, Dandelion changed its model. It now offers a variety of programs that include traditional, co- and self-publishing; and it has added online marketing and promotion to its contract.

Published Titles

To date, Dandelion has published 80 titles in the categories of non-fiction: (uncensored books, “America Speaks Out,” “conscious solutions” (self-help), “ancient mysteries,” spirituality, autobiography and biography; and quality (“unfettered”) fiction.

Services

Closely linked to the publishing company is Ms. Adler’s second corporation, Dandelion Enterprises, Inc., which offers the full range of writing and editing services for writers, including ghostwriting, coaching, consulting and book doctoring.

Websites

Dandelion’s two websites are http://www.dandelion-books.com and http://www.write-to-publish-for-profit.com.

Authors

Dandelion’s authors include: Jaffer Ali, John H. Brand, D. D., J. D., Jim Britt, William A. Cook, Ph.D., Richard Cummings, Ph.D., J.D., Albert De Pastore, Ph.D., Debi Davis, Naeim Giladi, William Hathaway, Laurel Johnson, John Kaminski, Sharon Kay, Norman D. Livergood, Ph.D., Wayne Madsen, Robert G. Makin, Ric Mason , Gene D. Matlock, Tuklo Nashoba, Kurt Nimmo , Jeanette O’Donnal, Michael D. Preston, Dolores Proiette, Yvonne Ridley, Mary-Margareht Rose, Becky Ruff, John Rushing, Leo Rutherford, Johannes Schokker, M.D., Michael E. Salla, Ph.D., Ellen Sherman, Ph.D., Michael Silverhawk, Sherman Skolnick, Dean Sloan, Frederick J. Smith, John Stanton, Tony Stubbs, Kathleen Sullivan, Elizabeth Lucas Taylor, Gordon Thomas, Solara Vayanian, and Stephen Vernarelli.

Non-Profit Foundation

The International Arts & Media Foundation (IAMF) http://www.cdprogramsites.org/iamf/ is a 501-c-3 non-profit organization that is a subsidiary of the Congressional District Programs. Its mission is to support and promote literacy through helping individuals improve their reading and writing skills, and inspiring and encouraging people of all ages, backgrounds and circumstances to consider the literary arts as a basic component of their everyday life.

The IAMF seeks funding for establishing writing workshops and seminars for individuals of all ages, backgrounds and circumstances; to 1) improve the quality of their lives, 2) provide vocational skills in the workplace, and 3) encourage them to enroll in degree programs for professional writing and communication.

Potential funding sources are corporate donors, individual charitable donations and grants. IAMF is training one of its staff members to be certified in grant writing. The Foundation seeks grant writers who are interested in writing grant proposals pro bono, to be compensated from receiving a traditional percentage or commission after the funding source has awarded IAMF with the requested amount.

Literacy events include "coffee house book and writing discussions," free distribution of books on writing and publishing, and free distribution of works published by Dandelion Books, LLC, a for-profit publishing company that is also connected to the IAMF through its joint ownership.

Mission

Dandelion Books was founded to support and improve the quality of life by delivering and upholding the truth and helping to obtain and preserve all forms of freedom and equal opportunity for all people on the planet.

Its core values are: honesty, integrity, free and open exchange of ideas, human respect, practice of the highest business ethics, non-judgmental attitude and behavior toward clients and business associates, and excellent customer relations: caring about its clients and supporting their needs: listening to and acting on matters of their concern.

States Ms. Adler in the Dandelion Business Plan: “We believe literacy, the ability to read and write, has the potential for helping people to make informed choices, expand their horizons and improve the quality of their lives.

“Books in their various formats, including virtual or e-books, audio books and their derivatives, are a necessary vehicle for educating, informing, inspiring, transforming, enlightening and entertaining those who hunger for intellectual, inspirational and aesthetic nourishment.”

“The mere exposure to books and other delivery systems of the ‘written word’ in physical and online bookstores may open doors to new worlds and new perceptions that could otherwise remain closed and unknown forever.

As a publisher that utilizes print on demand production and delivery technologies, Dandelion is dedicated to providing quality books that perform all the aforementioned functions. Efficient and economical distribution is the key to delivering products quickly and easily. Marketing and promotion drive sales at the distribution points.

“The Dandelion Story,” by Carol Adler (Dandelion President/CEO)

Prior to Dandelion Books, LLC, I founded Dandelion Enterprises, Inc. and incorporated as an S-Corp in November 2000, in the State of Arizona. I conducted all publishing and other literary business under this corp. In January 2001, Dandelion published blockbuster best-selling book, Seeds of Fire: China and the Story of the Attack on America, by celebrity author and investigative reporter and screenplay writer, Gordon Thomas (Gideon's Spies, definitive book on the Mossad, et al; Voyage of the Damned, Enola Gray, et al). Thomas had already sold over 5 million copies of his books before Seeds was published; this was to be another feather in his cap.

Dandelion launched the book worldwide with a massive publicity campaign (see attached review list and information sheet). As soon as the book was released, it soared to the #23 spot on Amazon.com’s best-sellers’ list, and within six months Dandelion had sold the foreign rights to 44 countries. The book contained the highly sensitive official CIA "Global Forecast" document:

“China by 2015 will have deployed tens to several tens of missiles with nuclear warheads targeted against the US,” predicts a CIA briefing paper to the Bush Administration, according to Thomas. Seeds of Fire contains a large number of official unpublished documents pertaining to China’s global take-over strategies.

Thomas also exposes the secret dealings between Russia and China. He reveals reasons for the ever-closer relationship developing between Israel’s Mossad and China’s Secret Intelligence Service that enabled America’s ultra-secret plans to be stolen from Los Alamos.

This information was published for the first time in Seeds of Fire; media lineup included all the major TV and radio networks. Two days before the campaign was set to launch, all media events were abruptly cancelled; shortly after, the book was removed from brick and mortar stores. Dandelion's success of having sold over 10,000 copies within the first 60 days after the book was released (qualifying it as a best-seller), was reversed. “Coincidentally,” a fire occurred in Dandelion's distribution warehouse in Pennsylvania and a large portion of the second print run of 10,000 was destroyed. However, the book was already extinguished and forgotten from the minds and hearts of the public, since internet marketing capabilities at that time were still their infancy.

In 2003, when Dandelion partnered with an internet marketing company PMC4 of Florida (the company is no longer in existence), I opened a second company, Dandelion Books, LLC, an Arizona Limited Liability Company, and proceeded to build this company as the exclusive publisher for Dandelion titles (Dandelion Enterprises was already imprinting under Dandelion Books). Dandelion and PMC4 (GoOff.com) opened an Amazon-style website with expansive IT capabilities. Within one month after uploading the inventory, Dandelion received notification from PMC4 that they would have to break the partnership. One of the PMC4 partners was an attorney; he told me informally that they could not afford to risk their reputation with their other clients who were feeling uncomfortable about being indirectly connected to a publisher that was producing controversial books. Consequently, Dandelion Books, LLC built another website and continued solo. At that time, I also developed a business plan for company expansion that includes a second enterprise open for equity investment, Dandelion Books & Music. Extracted from that business plan is the following:

MAJOR MILESTONES FOR DANDELION BOOKS, LLC IN PREPARATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OFA MAJOR EXPANSION PLAN


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